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Roth's feat of scholarship and imagination is an excellent place to begin Letters to Felice, now published for the first time in English, Kafka's confessional correspondence to the nice Jewish secretary from Berlin who from 1912 to 1917 was twice his fiancée but never his bride. Erich Heller's introduction, though heavily written and somewhat abstract, does pinpoint Kafka's "moral hypochondria ... a man ready to feel guiltily responsible for what he knows to be a flaw in the order of the world...
...insisted on being treated like an average tovarishch while in Kiev. At the Hotel Moskva on October Revolution Street she exchanges prepaid vouchers for her meals (breakfast: salami and cheese, two boiled eggs, black bread, fig jam, coffee-$1.50). Next week her father Prince Philip and her fiancé Mark Phillips will join her and watch her ride in the European equestrian championships. The normally obligatory visit to Lenin's tomb in Moscow has been dropped from Philip's itinerary, perhaps in quiet recognition of the fact that he is a cousin once removed of the late Czar...
Phillips, who had been posted with his regiment to West Germany, returned to Britain for the announcement. When he and his honey-blonde fiancée entertained newsmen at Buckingham Palace, the straight-backed cavalry officer confessed that he was "petrified" when he asked Prince Philip's permission for the marriage. Anne, who said the wedding would be some time in November, showed off her engagement ring. "It's pretty simple," she said. "A sapphire in the middle and a diamond on each side." After his car's faulty battery had been repaired by mechanics at Buckingham...
...wounded, the last American forces were scheduled to pull out on March 28, leaving any future warfare to the Vietnamese themselves. As the milestone day approached, G.I.s crowded the streets of Saigon, bidding farewell to their bar girls, jamming the U.S. consulate to get visas for Vietnamese fiancées, wives and children and buying souvenirs...
Married. Diahann Carroll, 37, fetching nightclub singer, former television star (Julia), and until two weeks ago the permanent and much-publicized fiancé e of Talk Show Host David Frost, and Freddé Glusman, 39, owner of a chain of Las Vegas clothing stores; both for the second time; in Las Vegas. Friends for the past two years, Carroll and Glusman first met backstage after one of the singer-actress' Las Vegas appearances...